European Infantryman 1430

15TH CENTURY INFANTRY.
THE ARMAMENT OF THE INFANT ACCORDING TO THE PROVISIONS DRAWN FROM: Military regulations of the soldiers of the Roman state from 1430 to 1470 by Andrea da Mosto
The second contribution that deals with the armament of the infantryman according to the documents is taken from:
Military regulations of the soldiers of the Roman state from 1430 to 1470 by Andrea da Mosto

The infantryman generally designated by the nickname of pay had different denominations depending on the weapons he carried.
There were the spearmen with long and short spears, (for the long spear which refers to the targonieri and for the short spear to those we call spearmen),
crossbowmen with simple crossbow and ad molinellum,
the archers,
the pikemen,
the rotulars (wheel: flat and perhaps convex round shield, however we will address this problem later),
the license plates or plates
(in the note the author describes them as a shield made of wood and lined with leather shaped in the shape of a heart, they could be the ancestors of the sixteenth-century plaques that we know and that can be seen in the Hesperis).
and around 1456 the shot-guns or shot-guns armed with bronze and iron blasts.